Meet our team
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
CEO CPT.
G. WIMMER
Project Director
27 years of professional experience
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
CFO
R. FUCHSBERGER
22 years of professional experience
COMPLIANCE AND SAFETY MANAGER
CSM DR.
H. STAERKER
20 years of professional experience
CHIEF HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER
CHRO
L. WIMMER
Project Coordinator
10 years of professional experience
CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
CTO
D. SCHMIDLER
14 years of professional experience
CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER
CMO
CH. HERDT
12 years of professional experience
CHIEF MEDIA DEVELOPMENT
CMD LL.M.
M. KEKIS
IT / Media Development
10 years of professional experience
CHIEF INTERNATIONAL OFFICER
CIO
D. GEKELER
10 years of professional experience
COMMUNITY MANAGER
N. HAUBNER
10 years of professional experience
Advisory Board
HUBERT GORBACH
Former Austrian Vice-Chancellor & former Minister of Transport
HANS HARRER
Chairman of the Board of the Senate of Economy Austria
RA MAG.
LUDWIG VOGL
Founder/owner Law firm
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The company
Discover the Skygate Aviation Center
Below you have the opportunity to get to know our headquarters with our operational areas as well as the development areas. SKYGATE is not just a start-up with a good idea. No, SKYGATE has already successfully realized many of its ambitious project goals. SKYGATE has an extensive corporate structure and a large number of employees, as well as management personnel with many years of experience! More than EUR 12.5 million has already been invested in the SKYGATE project!
SKYGATE
First company in Europe with a MiCAR-compliant white paper!
MiCAR Part II came into force some time ago, but is only applicable from December 30, 2024 for cryptocurrencies that are not asset-backed tokens or e-money.
All projects in Europe had to cease their public offering by December 30, 2024 and submit a new MiCAR-compliant whitepaper to the relevant financial market authority in the respective country.
At the end of November, a new Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2984 on MiCAR was also published, which contained many more requirements for issuers.
The submission of a MiCAR-compliant whitepaper was possible from December 30, 2024 at 08:00 a.m. SKYGATE has adapted the whitepaper to the new requirements of MiCAR and the Implementing Regulation and submitted it on December 30, 2024 at 08:01 a.m. “It was of great importance for us to proceed with the project as quickly as possible and to show the SKYGATE community that we are able to implement the legal requirements of both the national Austrian authorities and the EU quickly and successfully,” says SKYGATE CEO Senator Cpt. Gerhard Wimmer!
The MiCAR provides for a period of 20 days for the competent authorities to review the white paper. If there is a need for change, an improvement request is issued. In the case of serious deficiencies or several improvement requests, the authority’s processing may take several weeks or months.
The SKYGATE team is therefore all the more pleased to have received the good news from the Financial Market Authority that SKYGATE may publish and publicly offer the new whitepaper immediately after the 20-day deadline has expired.
Unfortunately, the application for the public offering is not possible for the entire EU area; rather, each individual country in which a crypto asset is to be offered to the public must be applied for separately. However, SKYGATE has applied for the public offering for all European countries and is authorized to publicly offer the SKYGATE TOKEN in the entire EU since January 2025.
On February 17, 2024, ESMA (European Securities and Markets Authority) published a “MiCAR Interim Register”. In it, SKYGATE is listed first, as we are the first company in Europe to be allowed to publish a MiCAR-compliant whitepaper. Incidentally, the Austrian crypto exchange BITPANDA is listed in fourth place in the register.
The company
What's new in the MiCAR-compliant white paper?
The projects themselves have not changed as a result of the new white paper. However, various new, predefined topics had to be addressed.
The new requirements for the creation of a MiCAR-compliant white paper focus on clarification and information about key project priorities and possible risks. The white paper must be structured in accordance with the requirements of the Implementing Regulation, whereby each individual point must be covered. Mandatory standard texts are provided by MiCAR for many topics.
It is regrettable that the authorities no longer want a white paper to serve as a clear, graphically appealing information brochure. Images and graphics should be avoided where possible. Instead, the specified points and texts should be dealt with in a specific order.
Potential customers who are unaware of this may get the impression that the company is not capable of producing an appealing and clear whitepaper – as was the case with previous projects. New whitepapers now look more like a capital market prospectus. However, SKYGATE will soon publish a nice prospectus in which the pictures and graphics missing from the whitepaper will be added to explain the project clearly. This prospectus will be available in addition to the whitepaper.
